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JACK SAVORETTI - DREAMERS
Dreamers
DE ANGELIS RECORDS
Undoubtedly, another of those singer/songwriter types who'll be huge this time next year; Jack Savoretti is a 22 year old with the kind of smooth vocal style and inoffensively slick manner that puts him in the same musical territory as your James Blunts and David Greys.
Latest single DREAMERS is another blandly smooth and stylised song that does little to really excite but nevertheless suggests Savoretti as a major pop star in the making. Much like previous single WITHOUT, DREAMERS is hinged on a soaring chorus and sweeping orchestral flourishes, Jack Savoretti singing with a tasteful croon that sums up the slightly soulful but ultimately forgettable singer/songwriter phenomenon thats currently dominating the mainstream music scene.
Slick, smooth and slightly bland, DREAMERS is nevertheless likely to see Jack Savoretti emerging as a major pop star; this may be depressingly predictable stuff, but Jack Savoretti looks likely to follow in the steps of James Blunt, Jack Johnson, James Morrison and the rest very soon indeed.
BIOGRAPHY
JACK SAVORETTI
“There’s a raw, soulful, yearning edge to Jack Savoretti's voice that sounds like the truth, and the effortless way it blends with his fluid, expressive guitar playing has a kind of primal magic about it. This is music from the source.” Neil McCormick, Daily Telegraph
“Not since Simon & Garfunkel has a gifted songwriter captured the fragility of the human condition so eloquently. Jack Savoretti is on the edge of breaking a million hearts - male and female. 'Without' will haunt your every waking moment” Burn Magazine
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you another scruffy, Bohemian troubadour in a long and sometimes glorious tradition. Maybe you’ve seen him busking on a street corner, and stopped for a moment, caught by a delicate web of soulful music spun for any passing ear. Think about Jeff Buckley, Ray LaMontagne, Nick Drake, Ben Harper, Damien Rice. Think of the grit and soul of Richard Ashcroft, the raw emotiveness of Neil Diamond. It’s the singer and the song.
Jack Savoretti is something special. Just 22 years old, strikingly handsome, with soulful, Latin good looks, his sinuous, husky, emotive voice synthesises with his fluid, inventive guitar playing so you can hardly tell where one begins and the other ends. He sings and plays like a man born with a guitar in his hand.
In fact, Jack was a late developer. He didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 16. Half Italian, half English, he moved around Europe as a child, wound up at an American school in Switzerland where he picked up an accent he describes as “transatlantic mutt”. The only thing that interested him was poetry. “I was writing all the time, it was the thing to do, sit under a tree with a notebook, go somewhere else in your head. I was in the clouds.” Then Jack’s mother gave him a guitar and suggested he try putting some of his words to music. “I was surprised how much more people listen to you when you are singing than if you read a poem,” he admits. “After that, I couldn’t stop, it was constant writing, every day, it became almost a form of conversation, the way I interact with the world.”
Some people struggle for a lifetime to get recognition for their art. You might as well know right now, Jack’s not one of those.
He bummed around for a couple of years, composing “a reggae song one day, a country song the next. What I sounded like depended on what kind of mood I was in.” He rarely wrote the songs down. “If I don’t remember it, it’s obviously not worth finishing,” is his theory. He was playing, “two or three hours a day, just walking around with a guitar, finding who I was in music. I’m always looking for the moment in a song. It should be a great read, not just a three minute shot but a whole movie with an incredibly complicated twist that leaves you thinking for days.”
In one of the unlikeliest signing stories you will ever hear, Jack was getting his hair cut, just making conversation, as you do, when his hairdresser told him she also cut the hair of Anne Barrett, Natalie Imbruglia’s manager. “I didn’t really think anything about it. Then she said ‘Would you like me to give her something?’ Well, it’s not like you take your demo to the hairdresser but I said it would be nice to get some advice.” Invited to the De Angelis management offices, Jack went along with a guitar and no expectations. They signed him on the spot. Anne said, “I knew within minutes of meeting Natalie Imbruglia that she had something about her. I got the same feeling from Jack, he has charisma and soul, he is just one of the most exciting raw talents I have ever come across in this business.”
Jack Savoretti’s single ‘Without’ is the first release on De Angelis Records, the label set up by Anne Barrett. The video, filmed over four days in Palma is directed by Oscar-nominated director Bobby Garabedian.
Just one man and his guitar. This is pure music from the source.
LINE UP
Jack Savoretti>vocals/guitar
Rick Barraclough>piano/bass
Geoff Dugmore>drums/percussion
DISCOGRAPHY
WITHOUT (De Angelis Records>2006)
Without
DREAMERS (De Angelis Records>2007)
Dreamers
LINKS
Jack Savoretti>www.jacksavoretti.com
FURTHER LISTENING
Damien Rice
Elton John
Shawn Colvin
Review date: January 2007 |
